Improvement in ox-shoe-blank bars



J.- DEEBLE. Ox-Shoe Blank-Bars.

No. 220,813. Patented Oct. 21, 1879.

4; (av-mag UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DEEBLE, OF SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN OX-SHOE-BLANK BARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,8 l3, dated October21, 1879; application filed August 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DEEBLE, of Southington, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ox-Shoe-Blank Bars, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists, first,-of a rolled bar in the form of a series ofconnected oX-shoe blanks, as hereinafter more fully described; second,in the peculiar form of blank, with the swell for the calks equallydivided upon both sides, as hereinafterniore fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rolledbar, which embodies my'invention, and Fig. 2 is an .edge view of tiallythe form of a finished shoe, excepting the calks. The narrow part, c, onthe toe end, I form of substantially the proper size, but nearlystraight.

At each end of each blank I form a swell, b, substantially equallydivided on each side, for convenience of rolling the bar, and for thefurther purpose that the blanks may be struck up in either a right-handor a left-hand die to form either handed shoe, as may be desired. Ifdesired, however, the bar may be rolled with the swells b which are toform the calks all on one side of the bar, instead. of both sides,without materially changing the nature of the first part of myinvention.

These blanks are joined together in the bar, toe to toe and heel toheel, for convenience of rolling. The bar, in the form shown, and ofindefinite length, is to be produced by rolls, the peripheries of whichare recessed with grooves which are the counterpart of the blanks A. Aplain bar of hot iron passed through said rolls will produce the barherein shown and described.

After the bars, have been severed into blanks on the broken lines, thenarrow portion, 0, is bent into the desired curved form, after which theblank is struck in a proper die to level up one side, by throwing allthe metal -in the swells b b-to the opposite side, and form the sameinto calks. It will readily be observed that these swells may be thrownto either side of the shoe, and, consequently, blanks which are allalike may be converted into either right or left handed shoes, as may bedesired.

These bars are designed for sale to manufacturers of ox-shoes, to befinished in any proper dies. The dies patented to me December 16, 1873,No. 145,633, are suitable dies for.

scribed, and for the purpose specified.

JOHN DEEBLE. Witnesses:

JAMES SHEPARD, O. A. SHEPARD. I

